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Tiny kaiju's avatar

I pronounce it that way too! By accident mostly I think because I pronounce Rhode Island as Roe Die-land.

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I know relatively little about most parts of NYS but I find you very credible because you called Troy "Troylet". Which is accurate.

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Tiny kaiju's avatar

So you have been to Saratoga then? More accurately east from Saratoga to the Vermont border.Edited due to compass defect in this model of human.

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Regional slam I think. The Capitol region seems to have sort of an inferiority complex.

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Querolous's avatar

This thread is descending into udder chaos.

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dshwa's avatar

You don't know how we raise them here upstate. Sweet sixteens with cornfields and haystacks is party on time, if you now what I mean.

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dshwa's avatar

Route 88 Libel!

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dshwa's avatar

No, that's the Southern Tier, except for the communists in Ithaca and isolated pockets of liberals around Binghamton.

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bobbert's avatar

And with about twenty miles more, you could get from San Diego to San Francisco. Admittedly, most of that is a pretty boring drive.

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The Militant Homosexual Agenda's avatar

Male horses frequently mount one another. And it seems not to be mistaken identity but normal behavior for them. OMG, children, cover your eyes! Mr. Ed is topping Trigger!

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The Militant Homosexual Agenda's avatar

Not that I am condoning vandalism, but wouldn't it be a hoot is someone went out there in the middle of the night and changed that to, "In Gay We Trust"!?

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sgt. jmk de la résistance's avatar

My mother's uncle had a small stable up near there, and we've driven up through there on our way to my aunt's house in Bristol, Vermont... mighty pretty it was, too.

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Lefty Mark's avatar

Of course, of course.

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Lefty Mark's avatar

Everything east of Rochester is Downstate.

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Lefty Mark's avatar

Adirondackers feel that everything outside of the Blue Line is the Other New York. Or maybe it's everything inside of it. Opinions differ on this.

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rumsey's avatar

East

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